Americans believe that climate change is making weather worse, that they’ve experienced it personally, and they’re doing pretty much nothing about it.

So says a Yale report examining how people in the United States perceive weather extremes. The report, Extreme Weather, Climate and Preparedness in the American Mind, was compiled from a survey of 1,008 respondents' attitudes about weather, weather forecasts, specific extreme weather events, and global warming.

The results seem to point toward a gradual acceptance that climate change will lead to more extreme weather—even if they aren't preparing for it personally. More than 80 percent of respondents said they had personally experienced extreme weather in the past year, 35 percent had been harmed by it, and 52 percent believed it was getting worse, the report stated. Only 36 percent, however, had a disaster or emergency kit for their family (although 72 percent had considered getting one).

Perhaps more interesting than the disconnect between risk perception and preparation was a shift in the American view of climate change as a far-off specter. Past surveys indicated that the public saw such events as “distant in time and space—that [it was] an issue about polar bears or maybe Bangladesh, but not my community, not the United States, not my friends and family,” report author Anthony Leiserowitz told the New York Times.

That could be beginning to change, according to the survey results. The majority of respondents linked U.S. events such as Texas drought, record snowfall, and Mississippi flooding to climate change effects.

“Most people in the country are looking at everything that’s happened; it just seems to be one disaster after another after another,” Leiserowitz told the Times. “People are starting to connect the dots.”